Fairy pronouns a step too far?

The Green Party is being sued by a former member who was suspended for mocking “fairy” pronouns.

Emma Bateman, who was co-chair of Green Party Women, was found to have breached diversity rules by making “clearly antagonistic” comments about “fae/faer” pronouns, a type of “neopronoun” inspired by the mythical world.

So there are “diversity rules” that require solemn respect for bullshit like “neopronouns” “inspired by” “the mythical world”? Have we reached peak stupid yet?

Ms Bateman, 58, is suing the party for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 after being repeatedly suspended and eventually expelled for her gender-critical views.

Speaking to The Telegraph, she claimed to have been labelled an “anti-Semitic, eugenicist, fascist, far-Right bigot” and warned the party’s “dogmatic” support for trans rights threatened to ruin its reputation for “following the science” on climate change.

Which the party’s even more dogmatic support for the fae/faer citizens of the neopronoun world will hammer even more firmly into the ground.

Ms Bateman’s legal battle with the party stretches back years. She says she was first put on a “no-fault” suspension in 2021 after asking whether Kathryn Bristow, then the co-chairman of Green Party Women, was biologically female.

At the time, Bristow identified as a transgender woman and claimed to be female. They now go by “any” pronouns.

In other words he’s a man who makes a point of forcing other people to pay special attention to him.

Ms Bateman also warned that the party’s position on trans rights “makes a mockery” of its claims that it is following the science on climate change.

“The Green Party prides itself on being a party of science, and we want people to believe us on climate change, and that’s one of the first things that I got into this over because I thought no one is going to believe us on science if we can’t tell them what a man and a woman is, because it’s ridiculous,” she said.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous to say we can’t tell you whether someone is male or female, but we’re a science-based party. I mean, it makes a mockery of it, so that’s why I was really vehement about it.”

See also: Pharyngula, and Freethought Blogs in general. We all about science! And freethought! And if you refuse to say men can be women you are OF THE DEVIL.